Silver....
or Gold??
As usual this year, I received a lot of books for Christmas for which I am of course grateful! When I went to add them to the one cubby in my bookshelves that I dedicate to my TBR stack, I was a bit stumped. Do I mix them in? Do I leave them in their own sparkly stack? How jealous are those books gonna be that have been sitting on my shelf for, I dunno, FIVE YEARS??
Remember that old Girl Scout Song (or maybe from a Christmas cartoon? I am specifically envisioning a snowman with Burl Ives' voice...)? Make new friends but keep the old, one is SILVER and the other's GOLD? That is how I am feeling. My books from years past are gold - I know where they came from and sometimes even why I bought them. The new ones will be good friends once I read them. But, where do I start? Do I dive into the new books and continue to put the older ones on the backshelf? Do I read the old ones first to make room for the new ones? Will I lose my excitement for my new books if I wait, though??
Oh, so many questions!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My physical TBR runs at just over 50 books. Embarrassing really. I do not understand people who say they don't know what to read next. Humph. I just don't know which ONE to read next. My daughter is a mood reader. I usually try to hop between different genres, not reading three historical fictions in a row for example. A couple of years ago I started giving myself a challenge list of books from my backlist (one a month) and that has been doable. Maybe this year I can amp it up a bit and alternate - for every Silver (new) book I read I must read a Gold (old). This is only paper books of course; Audiobooks throw a whole other category in there!
Anyone else have this dilemma? How do YOU solve it? How should I? Tell me in the comments!!!
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